Dr. Tabatha Barber's YouTube talk introduces the problem of the "sugar roller coaster": many people rely on frequent carbohydrate intake (broken down into glucose) for fuel because of snack-eating habits promoted by the food industry. The speaker claims most people consume too many carbohydrates and too little healthy fats and protein, which keeps the body in a sugar-burning mode.
A lot of us are stuck on the sugar roller coaster. We are used to burning carbohydrates for fuel. We're used to getting our fuel from whatever we're taking in to our mouths, because the snack industry has really trained us to kind of eat every couple hours, all day long, the entire time we're, you know, awake. When you intake food, you know, if it's primarily carbohydrates, those get broken down into glucose. Glucose is sugar. Our primary sources of fuel are glucose from carbohydrates or fats. And the majority of us eat way too many carbohydrates and not enough healthy fats and protein. And so our bodies get stuck in this sugar burning mode.
